Auld Lang Syne for the year’s end: Friends and fireworks

Music historians call ‘Auld Lang Syne’ as the most famous song that nobody knows. But everyone around the year tends to hold hands with friends and strangers alike and sway to the same tune. And with the madness of holiday sales behind you (yes, we’ve all turned into armchair shoppers!) you have perhaps imbibed much too much of the mulled spirits and eaten everything at the laden table and need to settle down with something that will comfort and soothe your soul.

Erm… You’re sure you’ve had it up to here with people telling you that the reindeer sweater grandma made is the best thing for a ‘winter’ in Mumbai and you are done trying to say there is no winter in Mumbai. You’ve tried and failed to explain how the coming year is going to be ‘sustainable living’ on your part and you are going to keep only those clothes and things that ‘spark joy’, your family has dumped in your living room everything from candles to idols of various gods… What do you do then? Watch how your favourite Christmas movie of all times was made, of course! Everything you wanted to know about the making of Die Hard is on the fourth episode of this show on Netflix. And for the first time, I am recommending you watch the show ‘The Movies That Made Us’ from the last episode to the first, in that order.

This show takes off on another Netflix series called ‘The Toys That Made Us’ which is so good, you will fist bump and nod like happy grannies and grandpas learning about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Barbies and trivia associated with the prized action figures (still in their original packaging) hiding in your closet. You will remember just like I did how you cried when your child unit played with your prized C3PO in the bathtub… That show is on Season 3 right now, so you can carbon date yourself...